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PRESIDENT Richard Nixon, says his friend, Astronaut Frank Borman, likes to describe himself as a space "activist." Nixon's activism will soon be tested. Eagle had hardly lifted off the Sea of Tranquillity when the very success of Apollo 11 heightened the controversy over what role the space program should take in the future. Vice President Spiro Agnew wants the U.S. to aim at putting a man on Mars by the year 2000, and NASA already has on hand a plethora of ambitious projects that should keep it busy through 1985. Critics like Housing and Urban Development Secretary George...
...opening the Wells Street Gallery in 1957 in which he exhibited his own paintings along with other Abstract Expressionists. With the gallery's demise after a couple of years, Natkin set off with his wife Judith Dolnick, also a painter, for New York. There he achieved modest success in a succession of one-man shows. In September, the San Francisco Museum of Art will give him the accolade of a full-scale retrospective...
...Cure. Similar ideas are also being put to use in a few of the schools that attempt to treat autistics along with other problem children. Carl Fenichel of Brooklyn's League School for Seriously Disturbed Children told the National Society meeting that he has had some success by firmly distracting autistic children from their tantrums and insisting they practice simple mechanical tasks such as holding a pencil or using an egg beater. "Disorganized children need someone to organize their world for them," he says. "They fear their own loss of control and seek protection against their own impulsive drives...
...account for Sidney J. Weinberg's success by saying that he was a nice guy seems singularly naive. His achievements and influence were far too extraordinary for so simple an explanation. For decades he was Mr. Wall Street, the director's director, the master floater of securities issues, the headhunter who as Washington's top-dollar-a-year man brought hordes of high-powered executives to the capital to organize and run the World War II and Korean mobilization efforts. He served as informal financial adviser to five Presidents, from F.D.R. to L.B.J., and was at different...
...when he died last week at 77, the best way that associates could find to explain his success was to note that he had an extraordinary ability to make people like and trust him. So they sought his advice, followed his call to Washington and, when they had new securities to market, brought them to him at Goldman, Sachs & Co., the investment banking house in which Weinberg was senior partner...